How do I make regime theory exciting for IR undergraduates? Apparently it’s not by explaining the Coase Theorem in detail.

Yesterday I was teaching my usual unit on state terrorism in a class I have offered since 2015. I asked students for some examples of state terrorism and they immediately pivoted to ICE. They came up with it on their own and it’s all they wanted to talk about.

It is happening here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The majority of them failed to meet ICE’s physical or academic standards, according to the data."

This seems ominous, since “international terrorism” supposedly includes Antifa, and Antifa is anyone from your local rioter to George Soros to ActBlue. I’m sure Big Orange would love to send Army counterintelligence after them all… www.armytimes.com/news/your-ar...

Prosecutor in 2017 anti-Trump protest cases faces license suspension - www.reuters.com/legal/govern... #J20

From my UMass Boston colleague, Steve Striffler. www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...

A whimsical, definitely-not-fascist Hitler love-fest in the Young Republicans’ private chats www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

On the one hand, it’s unhinged fascist cosplay. On the other hand, he’s communicating to his masked shock troops that the gloves are off and they can do whatever they want. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVC_...

Medals for massacring Indigenous babies. There’s your Friday headline. www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...

Could there have been a worse pick for HHS secretary?

This is what the ICE surge in Massachusetts looks like. Masked agents holding a 5 year old autistic girl hostage until her father surrenders to them. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Violent far-right extremist have been responsible for 94 of the 108 terrorism fatalities (87 percent) in the United States in the past five years. This included 2022, when 18 of the 19 fatalities occurred during far-right terrorist attacks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

RFKJ intentionally creates doubt, weaponizes the public’s scientific ignorance, and pushes a false balance between fringe ideas and scientific consensus. His fake skepticism encourages harm against children while saying he’s protecting them. It would be malpractice if he were actually a doctor.

⁦‪I spoke with @onofftherecord.bsky.social ‬⁩ about the collapse of the Stop Cop City RICO prosecution. Georgia politicians had a legitimacy problem & tried to fix it by indicting their critics. The problem is, even to abuse the law, you have to read it first. They didn’t.

Georgia AG Chris Carr has failed in biggest attempt ever to use RICO ag't a protest mvt. Why, and what does it mean? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @micahh.bsky.social @dnbrgr.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social @alexvitale.bsky.social @stopcopcity.bsky.social

We are live with today's Cop City RICO motions hearings, where Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kevin Farmer is expected to dismiss counts one and three of the indictment.

Good news! A judge has thrown out most of the Cop City RICO indictment! Georgia’s AG lacked authority to bring Counts 1 & 3, accounting for most of the defendants. The state will appeal & a subset of defendants still face terrorism charges, but this win is something to celebrate.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services says he doesn’t know how Americans have died from COVID.

Stephen Miller and his secret police can own your phone with this tool. Chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just as colleges and universities are starting up for fall, we get rumblings of an ICE surge in Boston.

Si vis Lugosi, para Bela.

Michael Thurmond, the former DeKalb County CEO who defied a judge's order and closed a public park by executive order to facilitate a "Cop City" land swap, is now running for Georgia governor. Here's a 2024 Atlanta Press Club Award-nominated photo essay by @nonmodernist.com for @thexylom.com :

I get that he kicked his own drug habit, and that’s great. But his takeaway from that experience seems to have been “prevent else from accessing actual medicine that happens to come in needles.”

It's been nearly two and a half years since 23 people were charged with domestic terrorism at a Stop Cop City music festival. But they haven't been indicted. One of those people, Jamie Marsicano, will appear in DeKalb County Court on Wednesday to argue that her charge should be dismissed.

Excuse the language, but this fucker needs to go. He is a clear and present danger to the health and safety of the nation and even the world.

RICO Charge Dropped in ‘Northumberland 2’ Mink Fur Farm Case unicornriot.ninja/2025/rico-ch...

Amazing and important work

“The Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges.” Just another Thursday here in Very High Functioning Democracyland. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

RIP Ozzy. Iron Man lives again.

Cat vs couch usual goes to the cat. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

He says “jump,” they say “How high?”

It’s never the right time for open government. But it’s always the right time for corruption! www.theverge.com/news/706635/...

Looking at the detainee list really drives the racism home. Spanish names all the way down, some Arab and African names too. Masked white supremacist snatch squads with ICE badges, kidnapping racial others and sending them to a concentration camp. America in 2025. amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

another US Secret Police abduction

“Checks and balances” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...